A few links to my most recent columns in the Boston Globe:
What's Missing from Your Dictionary?
Pun Times (review)
When Real Events Overtake Metaphors
How To Read A Word (review)
If there's a language topic you'd like me to write about, please feel free to email or leave a comment here!
Possibly doesn't count as outright evangelism — perhaps it's merely evangelism-adjacent — but this week's Boston Globe column is on Hulkspeak in Hulktweets.
Thesaurus evangelism: Wordnik launches a new thesaurus, with a really cool word-comparison-shopping feature (dreamed up & implemented by my awesome co-workers, with special props to Kumanan and John).
There's a new ODE out! It includes vuvuzela, only a month after the end of the World Cup! (And only two months after it showed up in Wordnik, as discovered by Language Log commenters.) That must have taken a little bit of last-minute page finagling.
Two recent pieces out and about on the Interwebs:
Something in School Library Journal about online dictionary resources, which included this fantastic illustration:
And my semi-regular column in the Boston Globe about online style resources. (I should really link to all the columns I do for the Globe, huh?)
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